Bri Le Busque

‘They are like my children’: research reveals 4 types of indoor plant owners. Which one are you? Many of us form highly meaningful connections with our leafy companions – including mourning a plant when it dies.

New article in The Conversation today #biophilia #indoorplants #research #stem #scicomm 🌱 🪴 theconversation.com/they-are-lik...

US had triple the unprovoked shark bites compared to Australia in 2024 As the number of shark attacks decline globally, a new report reveals how many incidents occurred in 2024.

International Shark Bite File data has been released for 2024- and abc wrote an article about it when I made some comments for #sharks #stem #womeninstem www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

First paper for 2025 out! Exploring Australian’s perceptions of the Great Barrier Reef. #marinescience #science #academia #stem #womeninstem

A huge shark terrorises people in new French hit Under Paris. When will we stop villainising these animals? For decades, the ‘Jaws effect’ from shark movies has fed into the public’s fear and panic – harming both sharks and humans.

A piece I wrote for The Conversation last year 🦈 #science #womeninstem #sharks #sharkmovies #scicomm theconversation.com/a-huge-shark...

Empowering Online Education with Behavioural Science Principles Brianna holds a PhD in Psychology and has been teaching in the higher education sector for seven years. Across these years Brianna has taught psychology,...

A little piece I wrote a few months ago for the online magazine- Education Technology Insights. About how we can apply simple behavioural science techniques to our online higher education courses. #stem #highereducation #behaviouralscience stem-apac.educationtechnologyinsights.com/cxoinsights/...

We explored the indoor plant - people relationship via qualitative responses and segmented people into 4 relationships, from highly connected ("My plants are like my children") to no relationship ("I don't think about my indoor plants"). #stem #womeninstem #scientist #biophilia

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One in seven have 'highly connected' relationship with house plant House plants used to be something people simply remembered to water - but now they are considered 'family members'.

Fun write up about my recently published work! 1 in 7 people are in a highly connected relationship with their indoor plants #stem #womeninstem #science #biophilia www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

What an environmental psychology scientist gets up to! 🦈 #science #dayinthelife #womeninstem #environmentalpsychology